When a rhapsodist begins to tell his tale, the worlds of fact and fiction fold together until the only truth left is the story itself and the rest is just life.
After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.
Mitch, a 13-year-old tomboy, is confronted with a local custom when she gets her first period. “So you’ll have the strength to bear pain now that you’re a woman,” her grandmother says. Mitch might have taken it the wrong way.
The mystery of this most divine comedy will begin to unravel with little evidence, many suspects and countless hilarious situations.
